Port of Cleveland
| Port of Cleveland | |
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| Official name: Port of Cleveland | |
| Named for: Moses Cleaveland | |
| Country | United States |
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| State | Ohio |
| County | Cuyahoga |
| Municipality | Cleveland |
| City | Cleveland, Ohio |
| River | Cuyahoga River |
| Location | Cuyahoga River, Lake Erie, Great Lakes |
| - elevation | 571 ft (174 m) |
| - coordinates | 41°31′10″N 81°41′19″W / 41.51944°N 81.68861°W |
| Mouth | Cuyahoga River at Lake Erie |
| - location | Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States |
| - elevation | 174 ft (53 m) |
| - coordinates | 41°30′13″N 81°42′44″W / 41.50361°N 81.71222°W |
| Depth | 27 ft (8 m) |
| Area | 144 sq mi (373 km2) |
| - land | 144 sq mi (373 km2) |
| - urban | 144 sq mi (373 km2) |
| - metro | 144 sq mi (373 km2) |
| Founded | 1825 |
| - Regionalized | 1968 |
| Management | Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority Board of Directors |
| - location | Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States |
| Government | Cuyahoga County |
| Owner | Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority |
| President/CEO | William D. Friedman |
| - Chief Financial Officer | Brent R. Leslie, CPA |
| - Human Resource Director | Nancy Spelman |
| - Controller | Margaret Rivalsky |
| Timezone | EST (UTC-5) |
| - summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 44114 |
| Area code | +1 216 |
| USGS GNIS | 1072326 |
| Topo map | USGS Cleveland North, Cleveland South |
| Annual Cargo Value | $1,000,000,000 |
| Annual Tonnage | 15,186,819 (2006) |
| Dry Bulk Tonnage | 12,000,000 |
| Break Bulk Tonnage | 500,000 |
| Vessel Arrivals | 959 (2006) |
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The Port of Cleveland is a bulk freight shipping port at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River on Lake Erie in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It is the third-largest port in the Great Lakes and the fourth-largest Great Lakes port by annual tonnage.
The Port of Cleveland handles the bulk of raw material shipments for regional manufacturing, as well as exporting some local resources (salt mined from under Lake Erie, materials quarried locally, Ohio farm surpluses, ...).
Connections to:
(2) Class I railroads:
and several regional/short-line railroads:
Port has truck access to four major Interstate highways:
as well as local bypasses/connectors:
and Ohio State Routes, such as:
Eight international cargo berths and docks consist of 110 acres (0.45 km2) of land alongside Lake Erie on the east side of the Cuyahoga River, while the Cleveland Bulk Terminal transshipment facility occupies 44 acres (0.18 km2) just west of the river.
The Port of Cleveland spans across the Cleveland Harbor on Lake Erie and up the Cuyahoga River to the turning basin.
Docks are maintained at a full Great Lakes seaway depth, which is 27 feet (8.2 m).
Four terminal operators use port facilities:
Cleveland Bulk Terminal (CBT), located at 5500 Whiskey Island Drive, on Whiskey Island, is port-owned but operated by Carmeuse NA which handles iron ore transfers. The lakefront facility can accommodate 1,000 feet (300 m) vessels used to discharge and reload rail cars. The automated CBT iron ore loader system on Whiskey Island on the west side of the Cuyahoga River loads materials onto boats from the terminal and transfers materials at a rate of 5,200 tons per hour. Limited handling of materials greatly improves the quality of pellets delivered to the mill.
The ore loader operation benefits three Cleveland companies:
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